Quotes About Determination

This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith...

When you start life as a tumor with a brain, there's no where to go but up.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

Don't look back, something may be gaining on you.

she'd known that being a victim was often a choice people made.

She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

The voice said, "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.

Be daunted, but not defeated.

I underestimated her. I under-estimated her grit. She

Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others--and I am one of those--never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life hungry stupidity.

A child born with a weak eye can put a patch over the strong eye and train the weak eye to do what the strong eye already can.

But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

90% of the game is half mental.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

It was also clear that in order to survive at this game, we had to get serious.

Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.

I couldn't afford to be offended.